RN (Dip HE) Masters of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) Cert Diabetes Primary Care

Karen was born in Malaysia and moved to England aged 18 to study nursing.

She graduated from the University of Wolverhampton in 1999 and worked for 7 years in a urology hospital ward.

She met Dr Warburton in 2002 and they married in 2006. Together they moved to Australia in 2008 (along with their 3 cats) and then later to Cairns in 2010.

She initially worked as a Chronic Disease Nurse in Cairns whilst studying a Master of Nursing at Flinders University in Adelaide.

In 2012 she graduated as a Nurse Practitioner and has worked in general practice alongside Dr Warburton since then.

As a nurse practitioner Karen can investigate, diagnose, treat and manage most conditions and works collaboratively and effectively with the medical practitioners in Cairns Doctors.
She has greatly increased her scope of practice (her skills, knowledge and abilities) but her passions and emphasis remain in chronic disease and diabetes.

When she isn’t working, Karen is passionate about her three fur babies (the cats) and enjoys travelling and eating out in Cairns’ best eateries.